The California Housing Partnership Corporation, or CHPC, and the Urban Displacement Project published a report Wednesday showing that rising housing prices in the Bay Area disproportionately affect low-income people of color.Read More…

Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a UC Berkeley-based research initiative, are using artificial intelligence, or AI, to discover new fast radio bursts in an ongoing effort to locate extraterrestrial intelligence.Read More…

The study was conducted by economists Sylvia Allegretto, Anna Godoey, Michael Reich and Carl Nadler through the campus’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. It is one of the first studies to look at employment effects of minimum wages above $10, according to Nadler.Read More…

Jennifer Doudna, campus professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who co-discovered the genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, will open a lab at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco to expand her research.Read More…

The Labor Center defines low-wage workers as those earning less than two-thirds of the median full-time wage in California. Workers making less than $14.35 per hour are considered “low-wage” workers. Roughly 4,900,000 people in California are earning low wagesRead More…

When installed, the user hovers over the image in question, and SurfSafe instantly cross-checks it with images in its database to determine if there is a match, according to Kyle Rentschler, a SurfSafe product engineer and campus senior.Read More…